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ARCH works with JRF to address need for affordable & social rented homes
26/04/2018
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Legislation

The ARCH Executive Board have agreed to work with the Joseph
Rowntree Foundation (JRF) to seek to ensure that the forthcoming
Social Housing Green Paper addresses the need for more affordable
and social rented housing.

press the case for the Green Paper to examine seriously whether
the delivery systems for affordable housing are still fit for
purpose and

demand that the MHCLG consults with sector bodies fully ahead
of its publication.

The combination of the Social Housing Green Paper; the Prime
Minister and Chancellor signalling an albeit modest increase in
spending on social rented housing in the Spending Review and the
limited success of the Government's housing policies in unlocking
the necessary levels of supply all imply that a space could be
opening to reshape approaches to meeting housing building
targets.

On Monday 12th March 2018 the Minister of State for Housing
Dominic Raab, responding to a question from the select committee
about whether the Social Housing Green Paper would look at
increasing the numbers of low cost rented housing said: "I am
certainly keen to look at supply-side issues and the vehicle for
that in the round." He went on to explain that issues of supply had
also been raised frequently during the tenant engagement events
held across the country following the Grenfell fire.

However, there are countervailing forces. Major housebuilders
are starting to warn of the consequences of a softening market and
organisations which are committed to increasing the supply of low
cost rented homes must seize every opportunity to urge ministers to
stick to a tenure neutral approach, when the Government's natural
political instincts will be to prop up the supply of homes intended
for ownership.

To that end between now and the publication of the Housing Green
Paper ARCH and the JRF have agreed to work together where
appropriate to ensure that the forthcoming Social Housing Green
Paper addresses the need for more affordable and social rented
housing.